Melinda, Our First Lady of Magic, and by our approximation one of the best magicians we have ever seen, has produced something better than anything our Art could offer: her son, Mason Ray Evensvold.
At just over six pounds, the young child looks just like his father, says the beautiful Melinda.
According to news reports from Las Vegas, Melinda views the birth of Mason as the best thing to ever happen to her.
We congratulate Melinda and her lucky husband, Mark.
The birth of a child is always a miracle and to the parents of that miracle there is nothing more important.
We share in Melinda and Mark’s joy and hope they find the moment they enjoy now to be present through Mason’s lifetime.
There
is a very inspiring article in the Fort Collins Coloradoan about how
local magicians fought (politely) to keep alive a three-day magic
festival in that tourist town called ?Magic in the Rockies.?
The main tourism folks in Fort Collins looked at the event as a great time and saw that it fit nicely as an event to follow Labor Day ? when tourism drops off.
Lew
Wymisner (aka The Great Lewdini) and Ed Hurtubis (aka Mr. Magic) were
doing the heavy lifting of organizing the event and were ready for a
change.The local IBM Ring took over the project last year and despite increasing attendance, netted just $97.00.That?s less than $100 dollars.
The
town leaders recognized the value of the event as a tourist draw and
encouraged Lew Wymisner (aka The Great Lewdini) and Ed Hurtubis (aka
Mr. Magic), to run the event again this year.
Lew
and Ed hesitated and the town leaders put together a plan that took
care of all the small details and legwork and allowed Lew and Ed to do
what they do best: entertain.
It
benefits the town by keeping the hotel rooms filled and it clearly
benefits the magicians of the area who get to perform and mingle during
the three-day event.
Interestingly, the event is covered by the Marriott Hotel Company’s
internal news clipsheet as well. Considering the majority of the
stories on the company’s clipsheet deal with the horrible bombing in
Jakarta, Marriott must view this a very positive story to tell its
employees around the world.
When I woke up, brushed my tooth, filled my cheek with tobacco (I wondered if there was a connection between my five pouch a day tobacco habit and my tooth loss) and put a nicotine patch on my neck ? I?m trying to quit but those patches are addictive; sometimes I use two at a time.
Anyway, I was telling you about this gift we had deposited on our virtual doorstep.
I wrote earlier that Jay Sankey has selected Penguin Magic as his exclusive distributor and that I was pretty encouraged by the news.
Since that time, I had two members of a religious organization come
to my door to tell me how I can be assured of eternal salvation as well
as dress better. (I was writing in my shorts and wearing my University
of Idaho Vandals Booster t-shirt).
They got me thinking. Maybe I should check things out for myself. I
went to Penguin Magic and looked at the video they have of Jay Sankey
demonstrating his “No Card Tricks”
DVD. He does perform a full effect in the video that you can see for
free and just watching that video has inspired me to take my thinking
further.
Watch the video and then tell me if you can’t think of
about 100 tricks you can do with the same technique demonstrated. If
you don’t know the secret, don’t feel badly — buy the DVD.
If you can figure the secret, tell me honestly if you weren’t inspired
to use the same technique (and gimmick) on different types of items.
That’s
one of my favorite things about Mr. Sankey, he is inspiring. His
lecture was great not just because it taught me some pretty neat
routines, two of which I use constantly, but because it also inspired
me to use his approach to magic — “what the audience sees, not what
the magician does” — on other effects.
Check it out and
tell me. Maybe I’m just preconditioned for inspiration today. The
religious members left soon after talking to me and announced to my
neighbors that I had “no hope” and I “dressed like a bum.” I think they
said it that way, or maybe it was reversed: I have no bum and I dress
like Hope. Either way, it doesn’t seem right.
Like the nosy officer that thinks just because I am a magician I can?t afford a brand new car each week and therefore must have ?stolen? it ? like it couldn?t be that I?m running an errand for the man or woman sleeping in the trunk of that very car? I have been so tempted to just turn Inside Magic into a HTML reprint of Mr. Watson’s journal.
Similarly, like those who wonder if I have math skills (interestingly 6 out of 5 magicians do not understand statistics), I have been so impressed at how Mr. Watson can turn out so much information in such a short time.It might be that inNew Zealand, Mr. Watson?s home, the use of the metric system actually provides more than 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
As I have said before, the metric system is a mystery to me.How could a kilometer be less than a mile? And is it fair that Europeans get to travel shorter distances than those of us with odometers using miles?
My point is: Mr. Watson?s e-zine is outstanding.It comes conveniently wrapped as a plain email message but with one click of the mouse, it appears as a cornucopia of wonderful magic news from all around the world.The journal is well-edited (much better than Inside Magig) and has contributions from some pretty substantial folks in our business.
Melinda, Our First Lady of Magic, and by our approximation one of the best magicians we have ever seen, has produced something better than anything our Art could offer: her son, Mason Ray Evensvold.
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